THE REAL ME

        The significance of failure

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure,

It does mean you haven’t succeeded yet.

Failure doesn’t mean you have accomplished nothing,

It does mean you have learned something.

Failure doesn’t mean you have been a fool,

It does mean you had a lot of faith.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ve been disgraced,

It does mean you were willing to try.

Failure doesn’t mean you don’t have it,

It does mean you have to do something in a different way.

Failure doesn’t mean you are inferior,

It does mean you are not perfect.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your life,

It does mean you have a reason to start afresh.

Failure doesn’t mean you should give up,

It does mean you must try harder.

Failure doesn’t mean you’ll never make it,

It does mean it will take a little longer.

Failure doesn’t mean God has abandoned you,

It does mean God has a better idea.

Tourism is a multibillion dollars industry that supports economic development; some people think that it causes damage to local environment and culture.

To what extent do you agree or disagree? 

The market for tourism in remote areas is booming. Countries all across the world are promoting their “wilderness” regions – such as mountains and deserts – to tourists, since wilderness tourism requires little or no initial investment. But that does not mean that there is no cost. These regions are fragile not just in terms of their environment, but also in terms of the culture of their inhabitants. 

Once a location is established as tourist destination, the effects on local community are profound. In some hill-regions in China, for example, it is not surprising that many farmers give up their farm work and make more money through selling souvenirs in tourist attractions than farming. 

The impact of visitors is another serious problem linked to tourist destination. In both mountain and desert regions, water supply may be limited throughout the year. However, the need of providing tourists with hot showers and cooking food makes this precious natural resource even more inadequate in those regions. 

Although tourism inevitably affects the tourism regions, it brings a considerably large sum of money to local government, which can support the local economy, satisfy the development of financial need of health-care and basic education and resolve finance burden in poor areas to some extent. 

In conclusion, people living in fragile environments should take proper measures to balance the protection of environment and culture identity and the demands of tourism to ensure that their tourism activities benefit the local population and environment in the long term. This may be the best way to resolve the problems related to flourishing tourism in fragile environments rather than merely restricting tourism. 

Many are of the opinion that the Internet is inundating our children with dangerous information. There is however no doubt that the Internet represents great advances in communication and dissemination of information.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Internet and present your opinion.

Today Internet is playing an important role in disseminating information easily for us from our computer to people around the world. All too often, we have seen and continue to see Internet enable business executives who are accountable for business transactions around the clock to transmit important information from their computers in the office to their clients and colleagues in different locales. Furthermore, youths the world over who can afford access to computer and Internet often encounter the same Kongfu movies played by Jackie Chan in much the way their Chinese counterparts do in China. It seems that Internet certainly has the potential to bring great advances for humankind.

However, some people may argue that Internet is probably providing dangerous information to our children. As we are all aware, there is more information provided on the Internet than anyone could use and most of them can be easily reached. Since children are lack of self-control and self-discipline, they are more likely to be attracted by immoral and pornographic materials offered on the Internet and ultimately abandon themselves to those materials. In this aspect, Internet surely imposes a negative effect on our children. But overall, if teachers and parents are able to teach children to distinguish virtues from evils, I believe our children can act responsibly when choosing what information is useful to them and what are not.

In conclusion, I think Internet has a positive effect on the way we manage our lives. As long as we employ Internet in the right things, we can benefit a lot from applying it.